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Summary
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE staffer recently promoted to a senior adviser role in the State Department, is reportedly the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov.
Martynov was executed in the Soviet Union after being exposed as an FBI informant. Coristine, an alleged former cybercriminal, previously worked in the General Services Administration and now has potential access to sensitive diplomatic data.
Concerns have been raised over his background and apparent lack of a security check.
The situation fuels fears about foreign influence in U.S. government operations.
It’s not nepotism. Nobody is suggesting hiring people based on their personal relationship to decision makers. It is about preferring those who don’t have any ties that could be exploited including but not limited to family ties that could complicate loyalty.
We have this mess in America because we are a nation that on average worships wealth and hates intellectualism whilst allowing an insane amount of wealth to interfere with politics to the point where the country is arranged to enrich the wealthy at the expense of everyone else leading to widespread disaffection which has been turned by a poisoned media to hate and blame for the other. For people smarter than the mass of the average. For immigrants. For the poor in need of welfare.
We have hired a despot because he implies that we can bask in his reflected glory and help ourselves up on the backs of this other.
In short we aren’t hear because we don’t allow the grandchildren of enemy spies with our most secret data.
So, McCarthyism was necessary, for national security?
Literally having someone argue that because he’s related to a KGB agent, he’s by default evil.
And when I said “Actions define someone as evil, not their family linage.” they called me the real racist. 🙄